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Definition of Suppliants
1. suppliant [n] - See also: suppliant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppliants
Literary usage of Suppliants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"II FOREIGN POLICY THE CHILDREN OF HERACLES THE Suppliants THE greater part of
... It is his voice we hear when Adrastus, in the Suppliants, standing by the ..."
2. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"We come next to the trilogy which may be called the Danais, and of which only
the middle piece is preserved in the Suppliants. An historical and political ..."
3. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1916)
"The South Shore Railway Company not being in a position to enforce payment of
the subsidy in dispute, the suppliants as assignees of the said company are ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"... a sort of faint reflection of the Suppliants, in the dialectical match between
... and that the Theban herald in the Suppliants may be compared with the ..."
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